Registered builders can obtain the brand new iOS 12.1 beta from Apple’s Developer Center or over-the-air as soon as the right kind configuration profile has been put in from the Developer Center.

iOS 12.1 contains a number of new options that Apple promised would come to the iPhone XS and XS Max. The beta introduces improve for the eSIM, which is a virtual SIM that permits you to turn on a mobile plan from a provider with out the desire to use a bodily SIM card.

Carriers will want to put into effect improve for eSIM, which is most likely to occur after iOS 12.1 launches. In the U.S., AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile will improve eSIM.

The iOS 12.1 replace brings a brand new real-time Depth Control characteristic, which helps you to regulate the intensity of box of your Portrait Mode pictures prior to you seize them. Right now, in iOS 12, Depth Control is most effective to be had for post-capture enhancing.

If you faucet at the “F” icon on the best of the display whilst shooting a photograph you employ Depth Control to regulate the quantity of background blur in a picture.

In addition to those iPhone XS and XS Max options, iOS 12.1 reintroduces the Group FaceTime characteristic that was once got rid of from iOS 12 right through the beta trying out length. Group FaceTime was once provide in lots of early betas however was once in the long run got rid of as a result of Apple wanted extra time to check it.

Group FaceTime is designed to let iPhone and Mac customers behavior video and audio chats with up to 32 contributors at one time, with new digital camera results options incorporated.

As for trojan horse fixes, iOS 12.1 addresses a charging downside that might purpose iPhone and iPad fashions operating iOS 12 to fail to fee when attached to a Lightning cable whilst the display is off and it fixes a trojan horse that led to iPhone XS and XS Max fashions to desire 2.4GHz WiFi networks to 5GHz networks, leading to perceived slower WiFi speeds. Both of those insects have additionally been addressed within the iOS 12.0.1 replace.